Whanga Week

It's been a pretty quiet week for us, reading, walking, painting...but just so you don't think that Whangamata never has bad weather, here are a couple of photos of Tuesday.



However, by late afternoon, the sky was changing, and we were treated to this incredible, full-arc rainbow over the ocean. I was almost tempted to dig in the sand for the legendary pot of gold!


A few hours later, a brilliant sunset (mostly blocked by houses from our view) marked the tail of the storm. For Star Trek fans: doesn't this make you think of the 'ribbon' that marked the entrance to The Nexus in the movie Generations?


Dawn this morning, our last full day at this location, was again marvelous. All we need now is an inspirational verse and we've got a poster!



As a last-day treat, at low tide today the ocean withdrew further back than we've seen it all this time, allowing us to walk right up to these huge rocks, which are usually 2/3 submerged, quite far offshore (as you can see by the black high water marks).


The sand patterns of the exposed seafloor were also really cool.



Tomorrow, back to Hamilton for the weekend (Frank's got a motorcycle event to see!) and then, on Sunday, off north to Mangawhai Heads, our location for April.

Here are the flowers and shells we'll leave behind.